A/N: If you want a recap of the birth and the twins meeting the baby (still getting used to this "out of order" thing) see Chapter 2: Family. Also, the baby's name is/was Sam in both universes...the one with the birth AND the one with the miscarriage.
Prompt: Can you write a Drabble were the girls meet little Sam? And he's the only baby so Hanna's being all Hanna and Spencer is all "Hanna what let the child breathe?" I would love to see the dynamic.
Family: Part II
Alison watched her wife slowly pacing around the room with their newborn baby in her arms, quietly bouncing him and speaking soothing words to him to try and get him to settle for a nap.
It had been an insanely difficult labor and Alison was exhausted. But she didn't want to go to sleep, because she didn't want to miss a moment of her son's first day. Emily uttered something about his aunties coming to visit him and then she kissed his head. She was so in love with him.
She looked over at Alison.
"How are you feeling?" Emily asked.
"My stitches hurt." Alison admitted. She'd been ripped open quite a bit because of their son's breech birth. She'd lost some blood, but in the end she'd made it through it…because of her wife's encouragement and support.
"Can I get you anything?" Emily asked.
Alison smiled, her dimples puckering in the soft hospital light. She shook her head. Seeing Emily with their baby was all the pain relief she needed.
"I'm okay," Alison replied. She glanced at the clock. "Did I hear you say something about the girls coming to see him?"
"Spencer and Aria are on their way. Hanna has been in the waiting room for the last thirty minutes cussing at them for taking too long."
Alison pictured Hanna impatiently pacing around the hallway waiting room while tapping her foot and sending increasingly aggressive messages to Spencer and Aria asking them if they were riding to the hospital on the back of a turtle.
"It's a good thing you waited until after to call her. She would have bullied her way into the delivery room and pulled him out with her bare hands."
Their friend Hanna had been looking forward to the birth of their son almost more than Alison and Emily had. She loved babies. She'd stayed the night at the hospital when Alison's and Emily's twins were born.
"I swear if Caleb doesn't put a baby in her soon she's going to steal one of ours." Alison added.
"I'd be willing to part with Grace right now. She snuck into the morgue and jumped out of a body bag and almost gave an intern a heart attack." Emily had an annoyed look on her face. "Got to give her points for creativity though."
"Where is she now?"
"Probably playing darts with syringes somewhere." She looked down when the baby squeaked in her arms. "Your big sister is a devil." She warned him.
Her phone bleated from the table. Emily walked over and looked down at it.
"Aria and Spencer are here. They're on their way up."
"God, why does childbirth produce such adorable little things that people want to visit? The mothers always look like hell. I probably look like a sweat-sock that's been through the wash cycle one too many times." She tried to fix her hair.
"You look beautiful, Alison." Emily assured her, moving one of her arms out from under their son, balancing him in her other arm as she put her palm on Alison's face and brushed her thumb against her cheek. "Besides, all the attention is going to be on him."
As it should be. Alison couldn't argue with that. And Emily was right. The second their friends arrived they were all over the baby. Hanna practically swooped him out of Emily's arms.
"Jeeze, Han. He's a baby, not a football." Aria laughed.
"I couldn't help myself." She looked down at him and smiled, her voice soft and quiet as she spoke about him, "He just makes me wanna hug him and kiss him and squeeze him." She lifted him up. His eyes widened in surprise, like he was alarmed by her. But he didn't cry. She took a whiff of his head. "He smells so good. He's got that fresh baby smell."
"We should contact the dealership about that. We clearly specified we wanted the Royal Pine scent." Emily quipped.
Alison laughed and the girls turned their attention to her.
"How are you doing, Ali?" Spencer asked.
"I'm sore. Pretty much everything below my bellybutton hurts," she said, glancing down. "I'm pretty sure I look like Frankenstein's monster down there, but Emily won't hold a mirror up to it and let me see."
Because Emily knew she'd freak out if she saw the swelling and the stitches.
"Aw, did you break your mommy's vagina?" Hanna cooed at him.
"Hanna!" Spencer frowned in disapproval.
"He'll be hearing about it for the rest of his life, I'm sure." Aria laughed, reaching down to rub his cheek.
"Damn straight he will." Alison said. "I'm probably going to pee when I sneeze because of him."
"But look at that sweet little face." Aria very lightly pinched his cheek. "You can't look at that sweet little face and be mad at him."
"I know, right?" Hanna smiled. "He's so adorable." Hanna snuggled him. "I'm just going to take him. You guys can cook up another one, right?"
"Oh, yeah, sure, I'm just an incubator up for hire." Alison replied with a sarcastic laugh.
"Actually, with the additional mouth to feed we could use the extra income." Emily teased.
"Nope. Next one is your turn. My cooch is officially closed for business." Alison shook her head.
"God, this poor little boy is so doomed in this estrogen-fest." Spencer put her hand on his blanket. She felt him kick his foot. "I know." Spencer nodded and spoke to him like she understood what he was saying. "I'm so sorry about all of these crazy women. I'll try and get your Uncle Toby to bro out with you when you need to escape the crazy ladies."
"Oh, he loves us." Hanna scoffed. "Don't you, little guy?" She puckered her lips out at him.
Emily and Alison watched them in amusement. This was better than any TV show they'd ever watched. Sometimes they forgot how hilarious their friends were.
He started squirming in Hanna's arms. His face started to redden. A quiet squeak turned into a broken cry.
"I believe he's tiring of your antics." Spencer looked over Hanna's shoulder at him.
"Nonsense. He's just warming up his vocal chords so he's ready for Karaoke night with Auntie Hanna and Uncle Caleb. We'll do matching outfits and everything."
"I am taking the child away from you now." Spencer threatened.
"You'll have to catch us first." Hanna smiled playfully. She very quickly, but also very carefully backed out of the room.
"Hey, get back here! It's my turn to snuggle him." Aria was quick to follow.
"I'll save him." Spencer shook her head with a sigh as she followed Aria out of the room.
"I think our son was just kidnapped." Emily's lips turned upwards into an amused smirk. "Should we alert the authorities?"
"Nah. A few days with Hanna and he'll walk out on his own."
"Days?" Emily laughed. "Try hours."
Seconds later they saw Hanna shuffle by their door, still holding their swaddled baby boy in her arms. She was laughing as Spencer and Aria playfully chased after her.
"Grown ass women acting like children with a toy." Emily snorted out a laugh.
"They are going to get banned from the hospital." Alison shook her head with a chuckle.
"Just try and stop them from getting in. Hanna would probably scale the side of the building," Emily said.
"And Spencer and Aria would be right behind her the whole time bitching at her." Alison nodded.
"Wild horses couldn't keep them away." Emily smiled. She watched them go by the doorway again. "God, they are worse than Grace and Lily. I should probably go get him before Hanna decides to re-enact the entire plot of The Lion King with him."
"Nah, let them tire themselves out. That way, it's three less babies we have to take care of later on tonight." Alison suggested.
Eventually the girls stopped fooling around and took turns holding their new little nephew, passing him around and marveling at him in wonderment. Emily and Alison looked at their friends, knowing how lucky they were to have such a close group of family. Their son would never have a shortage of love. He was surrounded by family. And they couldn't have asked for anything more.
A/N: Quick update on the new story. I had planned to post tonight, however fanfic is being a royal bitch with the 503 errors that they have supposedly "fixed", so I'm not doing shit with it until this site gets their act together, cuz I don't entirely trust something won't go wrong, as it already did in editing.
